Brief Author's Note: I recently decided to update and extend this chapter to include a wolf chase before Wario and Waluigi get to the Beast's Castle because I thought it would flow better with the rest of the story and perhaps enhance this chapter with more depth.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" BOOF! Wario and Waluigi continued on screaming until they fell into the snowy ground of a barren winter night forest.

"You idiot, you shoulda let me test that thing out first!" Wario snapped, rising to his feet and shaking off the snow.

"Wah, what difference does it make? It woulda brought us to the same stinkin' place!" Waluigi retorted, as he rose on his long, lanky legs and dusted the snow off himself.

"Wah, where the heck are we anyway?" Wario asked.

"Use your eyes, we're in a barren winter wonderland!" Waluigi rambled.

"I knew that, GENIUS, it was a rhetorical question!" Wario sarcastically replied. Shivering and huddling himself, Wario continued, "Brrr. Now make yourself-a useful and-a help me find some shelter. I'm FREEZING!"

"Hey, what about-a ME?! I'm freezing too!" Waluigi scolded.

"Well that makes two of us then, we'll look together, now shut up and let's get going!" Wario demanded.

"Brrr, and I thought it was-a hard enough to grin and bear it in the arctic themed courses and fields in our sports and racing tournaments," Waluigi commented.

"I SAID SHUT UP!" Wario screamed, his voice echoing through the dark winter air. Sounds of distant howling responded to the echoes.

"Way to go, genius, you sold us both out to predators!" Waluigi snapped.

"What? It's not the first time we've-a gotten into legal trouble," Wario excused himself.

"Those aren't police sirens, you ding-dong, those are WOLVES!" Waluigi chastised. "And guess what? Now we're gonna die!"

"Don't be a scaredy little wimp, we're not gonna die," Wario dismissed.

"Well what are we supposed to do then?!" Waluigi interrogated.

Wario gulped and replied, "Run."

"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Wario and Waluigi screamed as they sprinted through the forest.

"And you made a pretense of being the brave one, you imbecile!" Waluigi insulted.

"Shut up, your incessant blabbering got us in danger in the first place!" Wario blamed.

"What?! No! You were the one who screamed at me to shut up!" Waluigi argued.

"Exactly, cause you wouldn't shut up, and even now you won't stop talking!" Wario retorted.

Eventually, Wario and Waluigi found themselves in a forest clearing, where they were besieged by the finally manifested wolves. Desperate, Wario picked up a stick and swung it, shouting at the wolves in front of him, "BACK, BACK YOU DEVILS! I'M-A WARNIN' YA!"

One wolf behind Wario charged in and bit into his plump rear, causing him to scream out in pain and drop the stick. All of the wolves charged in for the kill as Wario did a backflip to crush the biting wolf under his butt and then ram his way out of the wolf circle with a muscular arm. Waluigi was so frightened that he leapt high into the air with his long legs flailing as he screamed, "WAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAHH!"

Waluigi landed outside the wolf circle, and when his predators noticed, they chased him up a tree, where he clung to a branch for dear life. Waluigi constantly kicked his feet up as the wolves took turns leaping and trying to bite him. As Waluigi struggled, he noticed Wario running off into the forest and yelled, "HEY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU COWARDLY OAF?!"

"I'M TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING TO SEND THEM RUNNING!" Wario shouted in response.

"WELL HURRY UP BEFORE THEY KILL ME!" Waluigi demanded.

Waluigi continued his struggle for about five minutes while Wario was gone, and eventually, the tree snapped and he fell down to the wolves. The entire pack pounced all over him as he screamed in horror, but before they could do any serious damage, Wario returned with a meaty, half-eaten deer leg and heckled, "HEY, HEY YOU STUPID MANGY MUTTS!"

Wario's shouting successfully caught the wolves' attention as he hurled the deer leg and yelled, "FETCH!"

All of the wolves abandoned Waluigi and ravenously sprinted after the deer leg.

As Wario approached Waluigi, the latter railed against him, saying, "You stupid fat lard! Where were you?! I thought you abandoned me!"

"I'll answer that later, now shut up and let's get outta here before anything else happens!" Wario rebuffed, dragging Waluigi off, running, by a skinny arm.

Soon enough, Wario and Waluigi discovered a massive castle out in a distant open area. Wario's eyes were the first to light up at the sight. For that castle had reminded him of his own.

"Momma Mia, that's a perfect shelter for me!" Wario beamed. He glanced at Waluigi, who scowled with his skinny arms crossed, and then said, "And you. Now let's-a-go."

Wario and Waluigi walked down to the castle, and once they were about to go through the gates, an elderly voice spoke up, saying, "Stop, you mustn't go in there."

Wario and Waluigi turned to see a haggardly old woman dressed in a snug, green hooded coat. Waluigi was the first to scorn her, saying, "Says who?"

"There is a Beast living in that castle," the old woman warned.

Wario and Waluigi looked at each other and then burst out laughing.

Still laughing, Wario scoffed, "Lady, we just had a friend of ours tell us some dumb story about a Beauty and a Beast. It's just a stupid fairytale."

"It is no fairytale, and it is no laughing matter, for I was the one who enchanted him," the old woman argued.

"Sorry, but I don't trust old people," Wario insulted.

"Yeah, when I was a teenager, my Nonna had Alzheimer's and was so senile that she thought I was her high school prom date!" Waluigi recalled.

"And for all we know, the stupid Beast that this old hag is talking about could-a be some crazed Mastiff or St. Bernard or something that she gave the wrong medication and-a made him go wild!" Wario mockingly suggested.

"Or what if it was-a Donkey Kong warped back in time!" Waluigi jeered.

Wario and Waluigi fell to the ground, rolling and banging their fists with laughter.

"Very well then, if you wish to disregard my words and put your own lives at risk, proceed," the old woman relented. "But you will regret it when you see the Beast face to face."

"Wah, shut up old lady, there is no Beast!" Wario scorned, standing up to face the gate.

"Yeah, we'll go in there and prove it!" Waluigi added.

As Wario and Waluigi entered through the gate, Wario arched his fat butt again and let out a loud, gassy fart in the old woman's face, exclaiming, "HAVE A ROTTEN DAY!"

As Wario and Waluigi went on guffawing and mocking the old woman, she swiped Wario's gas away with one gentle, magical backhand and said to herself, "The idiocy of men never ceases to amaze me."

Holding a hand out, she closed the gates behind them, sealing them in the decision they made.